| thanny said: just adding to this.... God is all about people loving him and worshipping out of their own free will (except from a Calvanist perspective). If God just revealed himself clearly and openly to every person in the world including those who didnt ask, everyone would have no choice but to worship him and accept that he is real. This eliminates the 'free will' part of it... |
No it doesn't. It still doesn't mean that one would worship god simply out of knowledge that he exists alone. For one, I'd have to be convinced that I agree with his teachings.
The one thing for me, personally, that has always bugged me about the christian faith is that god is incredibly insistant that we love him, of our own free will mind you, yet if we do not we are banished to an unimaginably harsh eternity. That doesn't seem like something I'd love willingly even if I knew of its existance. Loving out of fear of consequence is not really love at all. Now, I don't mean to say that there are none out there who genuinely love your god, I'm just trying to say that this doesn't exactly cry benevolence.
So yes, I would acknowledge him as my creator, but nothing more if those were truly his teachings.
